Retirement marks new chapter for M F Crooks at Floral Garden
M F Crooks retires at 80 as vice president of Floral Garden Parks Cemetery in High Point after 30 years with the firm. He helped grow the cemetery from 12 graves to over 4000 and handled about 250 burials yearly, broadcasting a lifetime of memory for the site.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Marks
M. F. Crooks
Crooks
Floral Garden Parks Cemetery
High Point
Taylor Simpson
Efird’s
Concord
Efird
Old Elks
Civitan Club
Sertoma Club
Arnold Koonce
Editor's Notebook on SDS plan to seize universities
An editor surveys the SDS blueprint for a student syndicalist movement to end grades and end Selective Service rankings at colleges. Davidson argues for participatory democracy inside a rival curriculum and mass protest tactics to push reforms, warning of a possible revolutionary outcome.
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Students For A Democratic Society
University of Michigan
SDS
Hill Auditorium
New Left
America
New Left Notes
Carl Davidson
Hitler
Davidson
Selective Service
Teachers Colleges
Paul Goodman
Neil
Berkeley
Letters To The Editor on alcohol and slum policy
A collection of reader letters criticizing liquor sales and urban renewal. Topics include religious and moral objections to beverage alcohol, praise for High Point city leadership, calls to improve slum areas, and concerns about public spending and inflation. Readers urge prudent fiscal policy and caution against excessive drinking.
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High Points
High Point
Carson Stout
Stout
H. L. Kanter
Enterprise
North Carolina
Robert M. Oe Box
Greensboro
N. C
Thomas W. Moore
Timing of Governor Moore's 1967 agenda falters
In 1967 North Carolina faces a dim political year for Gov. Dan K. Moore with weakened leverages in the General Assembly. Critics press for services and a broad tax cut while brown bag liquor issues fuel debate. past 1966 turmoil colors his timing and leadership image.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dan K. Moore
Raleigh
Canton
North Carolina
General Assembly
Moore
Gov. Moore
Robert Scott
Scott
High Point Ministerial Alliance
Ku Klux Klan
East Carolina College
Consolidated University System
Malcolm Seawell
Law and Order Committee
Walter Anderson
State Bureau of Investigation
Harold Cooley
Mary Poppins Telephone Confusion Wins The Night
A Davidson Dateline tale from Christmas morn follows a family misled by a toy Mary Poppins telephone. A voice misattribution prompts a wife to complain of false advertising. A swapped battery later yields authentic Mary Poppins talking, repeating nightly in their home.
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Sam Poppins
Mary Poppins
TeeVee
Roaming the Piedmont and a Lesson in Weather
A Tomlinson School first grader finds a necklace and helps reunite it with a class, a mother wrongfully accused in a dating dispute apologizes, and a lighthearted column recalls mixed weather forecasts and cozy memories of weekends by the fireplace along Highway 109.
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Highway 109
Thomasville
Denton
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Rowan County
Robert Franklin Crooks
Reformed Church
China Grove
Bessie Blackwelder
Edith Bamboli
Mary Agnes Cook
Louise Ave
Moose Lodge
United Church of Christ
M. F. Crooks Cemetery
Jerry Parrish
By Jenkin Lloyd Jones
Beverage Cal
W. W. Robbins
Lexington Ave. Baptist Church
Congress
Chamber of Commerce of
United States
By Robert Marks
North
Nam
By Bob Burchette
Sam
Babes Department
By Braxton Younts
North Pole
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